Welcome to AICTE All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was set up in November 1945 as a national-level Apex Advisory Body to conduct a survey on the facilities available for technical education and to promote development in the country in a coordinated and integrated manner. About AICTE.



HISTORY:-




The beginning of formal technical education in India can be dated back to the mid-19th century. Major policy initiatives in the pre-independence period included the appointment of the Indian Universities Commission in 1902, issue of the Indian Education Policy Resolution in 1904, and the Governor General’s policy statement of 1913 stressing the importance of technical education, the establishment of IISc in Bangalore, Institute for Sugar, Textile & Leather Technology in Kanpur, N.C.E. in Bengal in 1905, and industrial schools in several provinces.


Initial Set-up

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was set up in November 1945 as a national-level apex advisory body to conduct a survey on the facilities available for technical education and to promote development in the country in a coordinated and integrated manner. And to ensure the same, as stipulated in the National Policy of Education (1986), AICTE was vested with:

• Statutory authority for planning, formulation, and maintenance of norms & standards
• Quality assurance through accreditation
• Funding in priority areas, monitoring, and evaluation
• Maintaining parity of certification & awards
• The management of technical education in the country
  • 1943Constitution of the Technical Education Committee of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE)
  • 1944Preparation of the Sergeant Report
  • 1945Formation of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)

The Organisation

In accordance with the provisions of the AICTE Act (1987), for the first five years after its inception in 1988, the Minister for Human Resource Development, the Government of India, was the Chairman of the Council. The first full-time Chairman was appointed on July 2, 1993 and the Council was reconstituted in March 1994 with a term of three years. The Executive Committee was re-constituted on July 7, 1994 and All India Board of Studies and Advisory Boards were constituted in 1994-95. Regional Offices of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the Government of India, located in Kolkata, Chennai, Kanpur, and Mumbai were transferred to AICTE and the staff working in these offices were also deputed to the Council on foreign service terms w.e.f. October 1, 1995.
These offices functioned as secretariats of regional Committees in the four regions (North, East, West and South). Three new regional Committees in southwest, central, and northwest regions with their secretariats located in Bangalore, Bhopal, and Chandigarh, respectively, were also established on July 27, 1994. One more regional committee in South-Central region with its Secretariat in Hyderabad was notified on March 8, 2007.




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Our Objectives

  • Promotion of Quality in
    Technical Education.
  • Planning and Coordinated Development
    of Technical Education System.
  • Regulations and Maintenance of
    Norms and Standards.

Our Vision

“To be a world-class organization leading technological and socio-economic development of the country by enhancing the global competitiveness of technical manpower and by ensuring high quality technical education to all sections of the society.”





Our Mission

A true facilitator and an objective regulator;
Transparent governance and accountable approach towards the society;
Planned and coordinated development of Technical Education in the country by ensuring world-class standards of institutions through accreditation;
Emphasis on developing high quality institutions, academic excellence, and innovative research and development programmes;
Networking with/ or a network of institutions for optimum resource utilization;
Dissemination of knowledge;
Technology forecasting and global manpower planning;
Promoting industry-institution interaction for developing new products, services, and patents;
Inculcating entrepreneurship;
Encouraging indigenous technology;
Focusing on non-formal education;
Providing affordable education to all;
Making Technical Education in India globally acceptable;